Friday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Slate columnist Michelle Goldberg weighed in on President-elect Donald Trump’s victory tour thanking his
voters, saying the rallies are “menacing and threatening” the majority of the people who did not vote for him in the 2016 election

“The whole posture is one of both rallying the people who voted for him, and also kind of menacing and threatening the majority who didn’t —
with these sort of menacing asides. ‘They’re on our side, they just don’t know it yet.’ ‘You’re going to like what we have in store.’ I
don’t think I am reading too much into this,” Goldberg told host Chris Hayes.

She concluded that Trump will “turn our country into a racist police state.”

originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: xuenchen
Just out of curiosity (not being American)- is this "thank-you" tour a novelty in Presidential elections, or has it become part of the routine in
recent years?

I have a current guilty pleasure in being happy about the reaction of Trump's win. NOT a Trump fan, for the record. However, the screams, the wailing
and gnashing of teeth, the infantile whining and crying of liberals (who should be ashamed calling themselves that... REAL liberals are OK with free
speech, less intrusive government and a non-interventional foreign policy) just gives me a little hope.

I NEED them to keep doing this, crying this, screaming this from the rooftops. They need to do this on every forum, blog, Discus, everywhere they can.
Take 16 hours a day to focus on it. Lose your kids, your job... FOCUS!!!! Keep the narrative going!!!!

They need to burn out the Progressive narrative that is infecting our society. Keep screaming it until the average person sees their posts and goes
EEWWWWW... WTH is that?

We need a balance in this country... actual liberal viewpoints, actual conservative viewpoints. We need to be able, as people, to sit down and discuss
the differences, meet in the middle and make things better for all of us.

The Progressive ideology is the antithesis of a free society. We don't need a D or an R elected official that follows it.

So I hope they keep pushing it. Trump winning just showed that people, despite themselves, are waking up.

originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: xuenchen
Just out of curiosity (not being American)- is this "thank-you" tour a novelty in Presidential elections, or has it become part of the routine in
recent years?

I cant remember one . And I am old. Perhaps that is why I dont remember one
Plenty of "Victory Tours" just to tout being elected ,

a reply to: GreyScale
I basically started life as a Progressive Liberal Tree Huggin Hippie Type. Thinking I was a Democrat. But thats what happened . We grew older and took
over the Democratic Party. No more Kennedy style Democrats could be tolerated . Preached intolerance of others and a hatred of any views not our own
until we had completely beat down the True Blue Democrats. Then we started against the Conservatives.
I awoke one morning in the year 2000 and said to myself "what a crock of sh**" feller" . I had seen the possible future of this country and it was not
good .

Now , any questions on why I battle so hard against the group I belonged to for so long ?

Not at all. I was raised by hippies. Like did some commune time and had a few years with bean sprouts and no electricity as a child.

In my 30's I did a radical swing and became... Conservative!!! Woot!!! All about free market and paying the bills. My parents were mortified.

Then I noticed that my new party talked different, but my new party was actually my old party.

Neither party espouses liberalism. Or conservatism. Both ideals need each other. Neither party has either.

Don't know where a third party run is going to go (TY Stein for sending third party efforts back a few election cycles) but there needs to be a
change. I think Trump won just because people, deep down, know this. I don't think he's the answer... but he may just possibly help. Despite
himself.

originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: xuenchen
Just out of curiosity (not being American)- is this "thank-you" tour a novelty in Presidential elections, or has it become part of the routine in
recent years?

Trump's is first. It is actually bizarre. Most would be working on the transition, attending security briefings. In Trump's case, possibly learning
how the government functions.

Nope, he's having a bunch of rallies that look exactly like campaign rallies.

a reply to: GreyScale
Good luck with a 3rd Party after the Stein recount debacle.And Johnson showing his a** and his mental age. Set them back nearly to square one.
Now , if Bernie had of ran as a 3rd Party.......
ETA - Instead of selling his soul to the Dems

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